Pulling apparatus for automobiles



J. H. WOOD.

PULLING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION man JUNE 2, 1920.

1 ,388,683. Patented Aug. 23,1921.

PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH H. WOOD, OF BLANKS. LOUISIANA PULLING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed June 2, 1920.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. VVoon, a citi Zen oil the United States of America, residinp, at Blanks in the parish of Pointe Coupee and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pulling Apparatus for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and readily applicable means in the Form oi an attachment for automobiles and similar vehicles such as tractors and the like whereby the machine may be rapidly moved over bad stretches of road or pulled out of depths of mud or from holes in which. they have become stalled or mired under such. conditions as to render it impossible to extricate the same through the traetive power of the drive wheels, the disposition oi? the pulling apparatus with reference to the driving mechanism oi? the motor vehicle be ing accomplished without loss oi time or special efllort upon the part of the operator and the location ot'the apparatus beino; such as to render it accessible at all times, and with these objects in view, the invention consists of a construction and combination oi? parts, the preferred. embodiment of which is shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1, is a side view of the pulling; device applied in operative position to the motor vehicle.

2, is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear view partly in section on the plane indicated by line 3-3 oi Fig. 1.

The apparatus consists essentially oi? a drum 10 having a shaft l1. mounted in suitable hearings in. a bracket [52 secured to a suitable element 11.? of the vehicle frame, the shaft having key and slot connection as indirated at 14 with the drum to permit of axial movement oi. the former relative to the lattea The slot, indicated at let in Fig. 52 is formed in the shaft and is of materially greater length than the key which is mounted in. the bore of the drum. A head 15 is connected with the shaft and mounted in a guide 16 so that by adjustment of the head the shaft may be moved to engage its termi- Specificat ion of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2;], 192.1.

Serial No. 385,875.

a dare 1i" and iii .1, accordint, apparatus desired tudiiial slot 20 en- Upon the drum is a s1 rtilile cable leiminallv attached to the st he "i l ado ted to be driven into the giroiuni at distance in advani'e oi? the veli c i: will be undo id the cafi le gaged with a tic or p t sition with relation it direction otthe purpo When the engi cment e V :9 has been eiti' cable suitably anchored, it t, enpgagen'icnt ot' the membc s o a i it clutch o the machine by the propc udjustl'ncnt oi' the clutch lever will result in the rotation ol the shaft fl 9 as well as the .[l'aailt l i 1 sequent rotation ot the drum ,Vlllfifllh, in, tail-:- l 1 a consulcrahle inp; up the cable will cause the terrible fit; vanced movement of the v of the ineflicieiiev oi the The invention liar 1 new is claimed as new rail in;

it pulling attzurlnnent :i, l vesicle-i having" a revoliible drunn a pul ino; cable having one terminal at l'liiu'l to l a drum shaft having: a T3 tion with the drum movement oi the c drum, a fiiGill' couple tachcd to not a i of? said eh. 1": other unit dc: lei :itta imiciii' tl'l'lillfiliiiSi l'liii] sluit oi the vehicle, for attachment to the vehicle tranu (:lruni shalt beii i'ied in said on I head in adjusted positions; in the prairie the purp -1e specified In. twitimony whermiill l aliiiz my sigi'nature.

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